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...d the MBR of an image and to store it inside a file? (If you want to know what I really want to do: Creating a report on all contents of an vm image. [1] [2] Create the image on two different machines, compare them and see, that there are no important differences besides temporary files.) Cheers, adrelanos [1] https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/issues/113 [2] https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix/blob/master/release/analyze_image

...else? If these have been compared, the compared image should be as safe to use as the original one? (I could imagine that there can be extra data outside filesystem, maybe in regions outside the partition table, but those data shouldn't get executed after starting the image in a VM.) Cheers, adrelanos

...ta question: I think you got the essential non-file-system data. I can imagine data fragments from past/shrunken file systems, or hidden-data regions that fall outside what's recorded in the partition table. My imagination runs dry there, though. --Alex On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:56 PM, adrelanos <adrelanos@riseup.net> wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions! > > Richard W.M. Jones: > > I keep meaning to write a comprehensive "virt-diff" tool. I needed it > > myself just yesterday. > > Most interesting. I guess there are two reasons for creat...

...r Product: iptables Version: unspecified Hardware: other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: unknown Assignee: netfilter-buglog at lists.netfilter.org Reporter: adrelanos at riseup.net ### feature request Please provide a firewall scripts drop-in folder. I.e. please provide a folder such as `/usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d` where one can drop arbitrary scripts which will be executed early enough during the boot process in lexical order when the netfilte...

...MNAME" --natdnspassdomain1 off I haven't found any mention of synthcpu, GetHostTimeDisabled, etc. on libvirt.org. Does libvirt abstract each any any vm specific command? Or only the most common ones? So, if I say, I really need the commands listed above, I can't use libvirt? Cheers, adrelanos

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:58:24PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: > Hi! > > Is it possible to read the MBR of an image and to store it inside a file? Yes, easily :-) guestfish --ro -a disk.img run : pread-device /dev/sda 512 0 > mbr This will work for any format of disk. Of course for a raw format disk this is just a slower way of readin...

Hi, can you tell me please, how to dump the volume boot record of a VM image's partition? Cheers, adrelanos

Hi, is it possible to convert a bootable raw hdd image including grub (originally created with grml-debootstrap) to a bootable iso somehow? Cheers, adrelanos

what about just using dd? dd if=disk.img of=mbr bs=512b count=1 On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 16:24 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:58:24PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible to read the MBR of an image and to store it inside a file? > > Yes, easily :-) > > guestfish --ro -a disk.img run : pread-device /dev/sda 512 0 > mbr > > This will work for any format of disk. Of course for a raw fo...

On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 20:14 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 05:56:00PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: > > Thank you all for your suggestions! > > > > Richard W.M. Jones: > > > I keep meaning to write a comprehensive "virt-diff" tool. I needed it > > > myself just yesterday. > > > > Most interesting. I guess there are two reasons fo...

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 05:56:00PM +0000, adrelanos wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions! > > Richard W.M. Jones: > > I keep meaning to write a comprehensive "virt-diff" tool. I needed it > > myself just yesterday. > > Most interesting. I guess there are two reasons for creating such a > tool: just c...

Hi, Apparently, guestmount -o allow_other -a "/path/to/raw_file" -m /dev/sda1 "/path/to/mountfolder" is much slower than kpartx -av "/path/to/raw_file" mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /path/to/mountfolder (Doing lots of read/write inside the image.) I thought guestmount "only" scripts the above. Seems I was wrong on that. I am currently using